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Ñewsweek: Halloween, Day of the Dead, Chavo del Ocho Style
Ghosts and skeletons and ghouls that go bump in the night?
It was a spooky ñewsweek at POCHO — the most popular entries on the site were not the newsiest.
Pochos liked this week’s entries about Halloween, Chavo del Ocho Gangnam Style, The Simpsons‘ Mr. Burns’ endorsement of Gov. Mitt Romney and Lalo Alcaraz’s Sandy toon.
Los links:
Mas…Ñewsweek: Halloween, Day of the Dead, Chavo del Ocho Style
Tio Sam’s War Department presents ‘Tuesday In November’ (video)
Tuesday In November (1945, directed by John Houseman 16:54)
NARRATOR: It is early morning of the first Tuesday in November. This is an American city. A city that is not very large, not very rich, not very old. It is situated in the western part of the United States, in California. Its name is Riverton. The woman in the car is Mrs. Dawson, one of Riverton’s 15,000 residents. She is principal of Public School No. 2, but today there will be no classes held here. For this is Election Day.
Tuesday In November is a film in simple language made primarily for overseas audiences, many of whom did not enjoy the right to elect their own governments.
Mas…Tio Sam’s War Department presents ‘Tuesday In November’ (video)
Chavo Del Ocho Gangnam Style (video)
Hey — sexy lady!
- RELATED: Mitt Romney Gangnam Style (NSFW)
Dia de Los Muertos Argentine mutants are people too, my friend (video)
The band: El Mató a un Policía Motorizado. The video: Día de Los Muertos. We don’t know why, exactly, but one of the mutants from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is involved, and he is not muerto. We advise you, therefore, that the events depicted in this video are probably not a true story but rather a sequence of images strung together to go with the music. That’s how they roll in Argentina.
Breaking: Montgomery Burns endorses Mitt Romney (video)
Prominent nuclear power advocate Montgomery Burns has endorsed Gov. Mitt Romney for president.
Day of the Dead Snoop Dogg Lion is all ‘La La La’ (video)
RIP Snoop Dogg, hola kinder, gentler Snoop Lion! La La La (produced by Major Lazer.)
Paint your nails to look like Dia de Los Muertos calaveras (video)
Sara Inés Calderón turns her fingernails into calaveras for Day of the Dead and you can too!
Gracias a POCHO amigo Carvin Knowles for the scary soundtrack!
Al Madrigal in downtown Manhattan for The Daily Show (video)
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POCHO Migrant Editor (and Daily Show Senior Latino Correspondent) Al Madrigal reports on the situation in lower Manhattan after Sandy.
Vivacious Miss Audacious: ‘Caliente! – Un Burlesco Latino’ (video)
The lithe Vivacious Miss Audacious shows off her mad hula hoop skillz while wearing Catrina Calavera makeup (and getting undressed) in a performance piece called Caliente! – Un Burlesco Latino – “Dia de los Muertos.” She makes naughty look so nice.
Playing with your food for fun on Dia de Los Muertos (video)
Someone — maybe you — will watch this weird stop motion animation Dias De Los Muertos by Scott Renk and say, “Some people have too much time on their hands” to which we say, “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently…”
Happy Halloween, Little Girls! Signed, GOP Great Pumpkin (photo)
Make sure you wear white when you go out at night! Love, Your Grand Old Party.
The Mars Volta: Bloody paletas to die for from ‘The Widow’ (video)
The Mars Volta band of El Paso pocho prog rockers live to die in this video of The Widow. K espooky!
Romney campaign releases Halloween-themed music video
“Romney will lie to you to win the nomination. He will lie to you to get elected. He will lie to you as President” — Newt Gingrich
Tierra: Goodbye, ‘Arizona’ (video)
Goodbye, racist Arizona, says Tierra.
YouTube math wiz Vihart makes a mathematical burrito (video)
She’s a popular math geek on Youtube with mad origami skillz and she takes a special approach to making a burrito.
Lena Horne can’t go on: ‘Stormy Weather’ (music video)
Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky? From the 1943 film of the same name, Lena Horne delivers the weather forecast: Stormy Weather.
Ñewsweek: Meet Princess Malinche, beat the Gap, Fidel’s not dead
Sofia the First, Disney’s new animated princess is a Latina, hooray! Wait, she’s not a Latina? Well, then who is Disney’s Latina princess? Princess Malinche, you say? Orale!
Another ñewsweek at POCHO meant princesses, the Gap’s taste in t-shirts, Mitt’s taste in short shorts, Fidel Castro is still not dead, Donald Trump is still a jerk and more.
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Mas…Ñewsweek: Meet Princess Malinche, beat the Gap, Fidel’s not dead
Mitt Romney’s Cayman Islands hot tub house party (NSFW video)
Mitt is the MC with the moneh, byotch! (NSFW at all.)
Your Mitt Romney Spanish TV bronzer makeup tutorial (video)
It’s not easy being brown, as Mitt Romney’s Univision appearance demonstrated. Here’s the right way to get brown with la gente. Attention white people: This is a super idea for that special hot date not to mention Halloween!
Mas…Your Mitt Romney Spanish TV bronzer makeup tutorial (video)
GOP’s new app suppresses minority voters automagically (NSFW video)
Why worry about sending bogus mailers and erecting hateful billboards to suppress poor, minority, elderly and student voters? The Republican National Committee’s VoteRite app makes it easy! iPhone and Android compatible. (NSFW language.)
Cupquake’s mysterious and alluring Dia de Los Muertos makeup video
What is she wearing? And who are those dudes in the background?
Hey Donald Trump: Where is your college yearbook photo?
We have a question for Donald Trump:
Where is your 1968 college graduation photo? It’s not in your college yearbook, the University of Pennsylvania Record.
You’ve written that you were “very glad to get finished.” Too busy for a senior photo?
The Record also notes the Celebrity Apprentice performer comes from someplace called “Jamaica” in New York State, which doesn’t sound very American.
Come clean, Donald: Did you really graduate like you claim? And if you did, where is your photo? How about a diploma?
Otherwise, you’re fired!
Louis C.K. flies ‘First Class’ because he’s a professional asshole (video)
“First Class” from Jim Brown. (NSFW language.)
Who took the pants off? Selena Gomez in ’50 Shades of Blue’ (video)
What’s a girl to do when a love hunk comes knocking at the front door?
Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano on the ‘New South’ (audio)
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POCHO amigo Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano talks to the Southern Foodways Alliance 2012 symposium “Barbecue: An Exploration of Pitmasters, Places, Smoke, and Sauce.”
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Yes, I know you want me — it’s because ‘Soy Guapo’ (video)
I’m so happy Soy Guapo!. Sing along now, mujeres!
Fan boys with a video blog: ‘We Love Spanglish’ (the movie)
These two fans really love the movie Spanglish, with Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni.
Hey Buenos Aires! What song are you listening to? (video)
Hey You! What Song Are You Listening To from Greg Henkel
Hey pochos — what are YOU listening to? Comments below:
Mas…Hey Buenos Aires! What song are you listening to? (video)
Ñewsweek: Rosie tells Romney, Rodriguez backs Romney, RIP Impala
These are the stories that broke the ñews this week on POCHO.
Award-winning Pocho Rican actress Rosie Perez released a video that explained how she is totally in agreement with Gov. Mitt Romney about how it SO helpful being Latino; Mexican-American Paul Rodriguez spoke up for the Rominator in a Spanish audio message we translated for you; and New Mexico was the setting for a sad story of the last unmodified 1964 Chevrolet Impala.
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Mas…Ñewsweek: Rosie tells Romney, Rodriguez backs Romney, RIP Impala